1. 1 Manager Agent Technology Case Studies Application Scenarios

2. 2 Case I: Retail Store Chain l 3000 retail stores l VSAT backbone l 5-20 devices per store l Resources to be managed - VSAT interface –UNIX OS - HUB –Oracle RDBMS - Router –Applications - POS terminals –Critical Processes l Framework: CA-Unicenter TNG l Agents: DSM + CA Agents + User Agents Highly Distributed Environment: Central Management

3. 3 Retail Store Chain: Star Configuration

4. 4 Retail Store Chain: Remote Site Individual Store Configuration Clients DataBaseUNIX Server HubRouterVSAT UpLink

5. 5 Retail Store Chain: Solution TNG World View + CORE + TNG EM Services + Quick D ESD TCP/IP Backbone Network Store # 1 Store # n DM DM SNMPSNMP Distributed State Machine + System Agent + DBMS Agent + User-Built Agents + 3rd Party Agents...

6. 6 Case II: Large Financial Company l Seven growing to ten regions l T1-based private TCP/IP WAN l 200-2000 devices per region l Resources to be managed - FDDI controller –UNIX OS - HUB –Sybase RDBMS - Router –Applications - Windows NT –Critical Processes l Enterprise Console: TNG World View l Surveillance: TNG DSMs + Agents Regional Environment: Primary and Secondary MCCs

7. 7 Financial Company: Geographic Domains TNG 2D World View + Local CORE + Local CORE + Quick D FanOut Servers + Quick D FanOut Servers + DSM DSM TCP/IP Backbone Network Region # 1 Region # n DSM DSM SNMPSNMP System Agent + DBMS Agent + User Agents + 3rd Party Agents